Third World Countries Report

First Draft

This paper compare and contrast the major economic, political, social difficulties of Pakistan and Afghanistan and determine the depth of their relationship with the USA. As Pakistan suffers from several social, political, and economic problems. With a community approximately half that of the United States in an locality somewhat less than the dimensions of two California's, Pakistan is experiencing redundant growth. While projections indicate that the population growth rate of Pakistan may actually be decreasing, those same projections furthermore predict that by the year 2050 Pakistan will have assumed its place as the third most populated nation in the world. A rapidly growing population, along with political tensions, both internal and external, and an economy trapped in a cycle of debt, all serve to prevent Pakistan from attaining the progress it desires to advance, and perhaps to survive.

Second Draft

The fates of these two nations are inextricably tied. The story of Afghanistan-Pakistan relations is a long and complex one. They are two countries with numerous things in common: religion (Islam), some ethnic groups (Pashtuns and Baloch), and thousands of miles of border. They also share a border region that has never truly come under the control of any government. In the 1980s, the U.S. and other ones utilised this to its advantage in funding groups of mujahideen, or Islamic holy warriors, based in the region that could effortlessly cross back and forth between the two countries in the decade-long insurgency against the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. These groups then turned on each other during an ensuing civil war, farther ravaging the country until the ultra-conservative Taliban emerged victorious in the late 1990s. In 2001, the Taliban were quickly routed by the U.S.-led international coalition, and have spent the last few years regrouping in the border regions between these conjoined countries.

There is no question that Afghanistan is much better off since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001--most Afghans report that their inhabits have advanced, most foreign observers acquiesce, millions of refugees have returned dwelling, and so on. Nevertheless, the fact remains that Afghanistan still has desperate problems, and some of them have begun to get poorer over the past six months, including a resurgence of Taliban aggression in the Pushtun-dominated south and southeast of the country. Some of the determinants lie inside Afghanistan, and some of them can be traced to insufficient post-2001 aid for security and reconstruction from the US and remainder of the so-called "international community." But as Fareed Zakaria indicates in this latest part, a kind of professional analysts acquiesce that another vital component lies in Afghanistan's connection with its much bigger neighbor, Pakistan.

Not only is the major base of the Taliban in the Pushtun regions of western Pakistan, other than inside Afghanistan itself. There is furthermore increasing evidence that not less than some elements in the Pakistani military & intelligence establishment are giving important assistance to the Taliban, and are doing so because they believe that Pakistan has a strategic concern in politically ...